A new way to block any Skype account

Question

Skype

We experienced another way to block Skype accounts (3 of our accounts have already been blocked). The method is very similar to this one . The only difference is that the collective abuse report from rival villains is very plausible in the eyes of Skype support.

The mechanics are pretty simple. The attacker is waiting for you to be offline. And adds you to 4 group chats, each with 10-15 fake Skype accounts. They all write mate, all sorts of rubbish, after which all these accounts go offline. In our case, they went offline for 4 months.
Today, these accounts went online, and we were horrified to see how these group chats “from the past” are loaded on our accounts. After that, a complaint is made against our account from these accounts, and it goes into a ban within an hour.

Chatting with tech support is like a circus. “We will help you”, and after 5 minutes “Oh, you violated the 11.2 Terms of Use, we can’t do anything about it, as much as we are sorry to tell you this.”
No screenshots of group conversations that inexplicably appeared from the past, no explanation that this is a possible “report abuse” abuse - nothing helps.
It remains only to observe strict answers from Skype support.

Answer 1

Freaks. While schoolchildren are having fun, people's business is suffering. Many sites have technical support via Skype. I'm surprised by the frank **ism of Microsoft in relation to its customers. Is it really that hard to fix a security hole?

Answer 2

Many people are mistaken about the reasons for blocking Microsoft/Skype accounts.
Let me describe my case as an example.
I haven't used Skype for probably 5 years.
2 weeks ago I specially created a new account in yahoo mail.
Using this account, I created a new Skype account. I didn't want to use my old skype account, it was for friends, and I made a new one for use at work.
I went into a new account, looked at the settings and left.
I don't have a single contact there, I haven't sent a single message, I haven't made a single voice call. Just got in and out. Naturally, when it was necessary to confirm the mail, I did it.
I did not publish this name / id / email of Skype anywhere and did not tell anyone. No one knows about this account except me.
And now (2 weeks later) I decided to use this account for the first time, I tried to log into Skype, but it won't let me in, for the reason:
Something went wrong.
There is a problem with your Microsoft account. To fix this, sign in to account.live.com from a browser.
Then I tried to log into my account on account.live.com, then it wrote to me:
Your account has been locked.
We've detected some activity that violates our Microsoft Services Agreement and have locked your account.
I will add that I never make mistakes in logins and passwords, I always enter correctly the first time, because. I never memorize them, I always write them down in the computer. Nobody broke my computer. Linux computers are of little interest to hackers so far. Plus, my computer is hard to hack. I have experience in protecting Linux systems, incl. providing Internet services. And my home computer doesn't even have an external IP. And besides, when setting up a computer, I immediately check the active network services, cut down the excess, and, if necessary, set up a firewall. I use only software from the standard debian repositories. And if I have to use third-party programs from untrusted sources, then I run them in temporary virtual machines (I clone them in a few minutes), which I then delete along with their image on the disk.
In general, I am 99.9% sure that no one has used my new account all this time (two weeks).
Since I do not trust Skype, I consider it a spyware, I installed it inside a virtual machine. I made a virtual machine specifically for Skype, and did not turn on the virtual machine for two weeks.
Once on the LOR resource, I read about Skype isolation methods. There, one person suggested that it’s not worth isolating proprietary Skype like, creating an obviously artificial environment for it (like chroot, contexts, etc.), but it’s better to make it look natural (for example, virtual machines), so there will be less chance of being banned . Someone laughed at him, and someone upvoted. But the virtual machine did not help me either.
Many people think that Microsoft only bans spammers, swearers, or those whom detractors decide to ban with the help of complaints or other tricky methods.
But it turned out that they can be banned for almost no reason. Unfavorable factors include the following: living in Russia (sanctions), using Linux, isolating Skype from the main operating system so that Skype does not leak your data to Microsoft (and therefore to special services).

Answer 3

It turned out to unlock the account. You need to be persistent, but not go over to rudeness. You can CAPSOM, then they answer faster. It makes sense to quote previous dialogues. On the N-th attempt, after X hours, the account was unblocked.
There are rumors that the owners of Skype Premium accounts do not have to be afraid of blocking.

Answer 4

Continuation of the story, our next account began to be blackmailed:

And what is most disgusting, the new acc was blocked the next day. Skype support "sorry", but can't activate the account.
They offered a “good” option, register a new account:

Answer 5

fuck off ... And now what to do ?!
PS
It's strange, but how can they not unlock it ?! Some kind of absurdity, they ban them, but they can’t pull it out ?!

Answer 6

Did you manage to unblock Skype yet?
Because of shkolota, so many online stores have suffered

Answer 7

About six months ago, my account was blocked by sending complaints from several accounts. I tried to restore, but all attempts led to one answer and a refusal to unlock. Yesterday I again contacted Skype support via live chat, explained the whole situation to them and asked them to unblock the account, or to name the exact reason for blocking without referring to the rules of the service. A support person asked me to go through the verification process. A few hours after completing the confirmation procedure, I received a message about unlocking my account.